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A Place to Bury Strangers

Atticus Priest Series, Book 2

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A Place to Bury Strangers

By: Mark Dawson
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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A breathtaking, twisty adventure, A Place to Bury Strangers is the second Atticus Priest mystery.

A dog walker finds a human bone on lonely Salisbury Plain. DCI Mackenzie Jones investigates the grisly discovery but cannot explain how it ended up there. She contacts disgraced ex-detective Atticus Priest and the two of them trace the bone to a graveyard in the nearby village of Imber. But the village was abandoned after it was purchased by the Ministry of Defence to train the army, so why have bodies been buried in the graveyard since the church was closed?

At the same time, Atticus is approached by a single dad who needs his help to track down his missing daughter. Atticus takes on the case and finds himself battling a London gang who are selling their drugs in Salisbury and a host of witnesses who don't seem to be telling him the truth.

Atticus and Mack deal with the fiendishly complex case and unpick a conspiracy that cuts to the heart of the English establishment - while dealing with their own feelings for one another.

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Dawson has hit the jackpot with Atticus Priest (the best PI Name of all time) & the Solsbury populous he is forced to interact with. Priest is a very modern character who through his genius and shortcomings make him the absolute perfect fallible lead readers can relate to and root for — all whilst cringing at the same time!!!

Vance makes this a genuine must-read for ANY crime-fiction fan.

An exceptional follow-up

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easy listening. twist and turns plot, but once revealed it became predictable. narration good.

good plot

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I like this one as much as the first in the series. It’s twisty and Atticus is a great character!

I really like the characters

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I love the characters in this series- particularly Atticus and Bandit. Atticus is an interesting due to his complex ‘on the spectrum’ personality. The story is fast paced , varied and never drags. I only have one complaint and that is the unbearable wait for the next next book!

Unputdownable!

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Not sure why we need the repeated and really long description of bodies decomposing as part of the story. I lost the will to live after the third intensive and long description and stopped listening.

Decomposing bodies

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